Practitioner Living in Sweden: The Persecution Separated Our Family

Since July 20th, 1999, Falun Gong practitioners, including my mother Li Hua and my step-father Huang Shengjie, have been subject to various forms of persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

My mother and I started practising Falun Gong in Beijing in 1996. After learning Falun Dafa, she was able to quit smoking, which she found difficult to do before. Every day we did the exercises and studied the Falun Dafa teachings together with fellow practitioners. In 1998, my mother met my step-father while promoting the practice. They later got married.

On April 25th, 1999, mother went to the Appeals Office in Zhongnanhai in Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was detained. She was later released on bail provided by her employer. On July 20th, 1999, she went to Tiananmen again to unfurl a banner explaining the facts about Falun Dafa but was sent to a labour camp for one year. Unable to withstand the pressure, mother wrote the guarantee statement to stop practising. She was released three months early but was forced to attend several brainwashing classes. Later, she realised her mistakes and regretted being "transformed¹," so she wrote a solemn statement on the Minghui website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net) declaring that she had again started practising Falun Gong.

In February 2006, the police took my mother and my step-father away from their home. The police charged my mother in court and requested a two and a half year prison sentence. But the court didn't accept the case, as my mum's conduct was not serious enough to receive a sentence. Nonetheless my mum is still incarcerated at the Qinghe Forced Labour Camp in Beijing. At the same time, my step-father is also unlawfully detained at an unknown place.

Note

1. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/9/30/139000.html